Belgian label Radio Martiko recently released Divine Reeds, a compilation dedicated to the music from northwestern Greece’s Epirus region and one of its most celebrated interpreters, Tassos Chalkias. Tassos Chalkias, a composer and clarinetist as well as member of the Chalkias family music troupe, left hundreds of recordings of...
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Cuban pianist and composer Omar Sosa recently released his new album titled An East African Journey. The project started back in 2009 and fuses jazz with traditional music from all over the African Continent featuring remarkable musicians. ‘Thuon Mok Loga’ is one of the singles extracted from the album...
London-based jazz quartet Sons of Kemet are back with ‘Hustle’, featuring Kojey Radical. The song is the first single extracted from the band’s upcoming album Black To The Future, out May 14 via Impulse Records. “In ‘Hustle’, two dancers represent the duality present within any struggle to transcend internal...
London-based saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia recently took part to BBC Radio 6 Music 2021 performing, among others, ‘The Message Continues’, part of her latest album Source. You can watch her set in its entirety visiting the BBC Radio 6 website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p098pwnl
Melbourne-based jazz-funk band Hiatus Kaiyote recently collaborated with Brazilian composer, singer, and producer Arthur Verocai to release their new single ‘Get Sun’, part of their upcoming album Mood Valiant, out on 25 June via Brainfeeder: https://hiatuskaiyote.lnk.to/moodYo
This is an album that has landed at a time we may most appreciate it. Elevation is at the heart of this record. It is an LP inspired by afrobeat and spiritual jazz with strong elements of Detroit groove pulsing through the soundtrack. Nicola Conte and Gianluca Petrella’s message is...
‘Piensa’ is the new single by Cuban rapper El Individuo extracted from his latest EP Escribo our now on INTL BLK. “Escribo is a meditation on this year from Cuba’s most populated neighborhood, Diez de Octubre, Havana. The EP pulls together Cuba’s jazz and timba influences with trap, dancehall, drill...
The new episode of Rendez-Vous à Bobo is a rendez-vous “from the archives” with the late great Hugh Masekela. Lucas Keen interviewed Masekela back in 2006, when he was just starting out in radio. Featured album of the month is Indaba Is out now on Brownswood Records + Some well known and...
Preview of the album: This Album is no longer available however if you want to receive exclusive access to a free album like this each month just sign up to our monthly newsletter by filling in the form below: Track List: Las Cafeteras feat. Sa-Roc, QVLN, Mega Ran & Boog Brown – If...
Check out the new single by Chicago-based collective Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble part of their upcoming album NOW out on International Anthem in early April: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/now “NOW” was created in the final throes of Summer 2020, following months of pandemic-induced fear & isolation, the explosion of social unrest, struggle & violence...